.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not remember a solitary situation where a vice-presidential prospect supported a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy confessed that "we couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually now obtained wisdom. Yet how much distinction do vice-presidential selections in fact create in vote-castings?