.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't recollect a single case where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator coming from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "we could not have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is now acquired wisdom. Yet how much distinction perform vice-presidential picks actually create in vote-castings?