.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not remember a single situation where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator from Texas will aid him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy confessed that "our team could not have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is right now acquired knowledge. However just how much difference do vice-presidential choices actually create in elections?