.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not remember a single scenario where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our experts couldn't have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is now obtained knowledge. However how much distinction do vice-presidential selections really create in political elections?