.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not remember a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential applicant supported an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator from Texas would aid him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "we could not have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is right now received understanding. But just how much distinction do vice-presidential choices in fact create in political elections?