.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't recall a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential applicant assisted an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that "our company could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is now obtained understanding. However just how much distinction carry out vice-presidential selections actually create in elections?