.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't recollect a solitary situation where a vice-presidential candidate supported a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "we couldn't have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is currently received understanding. But just how much distinction do vice-presidential choices really make in political elections?