.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't recollect a singular instance where a vice-presidential applicant supported an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman coming from Texas would aid him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy confessed that "we couldn't have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually currently acquired knowledge. Yet the amount of difference perform vice-presidential choices in fact create in political elections?