.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a singular scenario where a vice-presidential applicant supported an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator from Texas would certainly aid him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy acknowledged that "we could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually right now obtained knowledge. Yet just how much variation perform vice-presidential choices actually create in elections?