.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a singular situation where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician from Texas would assist him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually currently obtained wisdom. But the amount of distinction do vice-presidential choices really make in elections?