.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I don't recollect a solitary situation where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician coming from Texas would help him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "we could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually currently received understanding. Yet the amount of variation perform vice-presidential picks in fact create in elections?