.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't remember a single scenario where a vice-presidential candidate supported an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator from Texas will aid 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 Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our team could not have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now gotten knowledge. But how much distinction perform vice-presidential choices really make in vote-castings?