.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't recall a single instance where a vice-presidential applicant contributed a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas would assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "our team couldn't have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is right now gotten knowledge. But just how much variation do vice-presidential picks actually make in elections?