.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not recollect a singular scenario where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator coming from Texas would help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy accepted that "our company couldn't have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is now acquired knowledge. However how much distinction carry out vice-presidential picks really create in vote-castings?