.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't recall a single situation where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our experts could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is right now received knowledge. However just how much variation do vice-presidential choices really create in vote-castings?