.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't recollect a singular instance where a vice-presidential applicant assisted an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator coming from Texas will help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy confessed that "our company couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is now received wisdom. However how much distinction carry out vice-presidential choices actually make in vote-castings?