.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not recollect a singular situation where a vice-presidential applicant assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas will help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy acknowledged that "we could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is now received wisdom. Yet just how much variation carry out vice-presidential selections actually make in political elections?