.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not recollect a single instance where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "our company couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually now acquired understanding. Yet just how much variation carry out vice-presidential choices actually create in elections?