.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't remember a singular scenario where a vice-presidential applicant assisted a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy confessed that "our team couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually now received wisdom. However just how much difference do vice-presidential picks actually create in political elections?