.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not recollect a singular situation where a vice-presidential applicant supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy admitted that "we could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually now received wisdom. Yet how much variation carry out vice-presidential picks really make in political elections?