.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't recall a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential candidate supported an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly aid him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our company could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently acquired understanding. However the amount of distinction perform vice-presidential picks actually create in vote-castings?