.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't recall a solitary situation where a vice-presidential prospect supported an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman coming from Texas will aid him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that "our company could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now acquired wisdom. However just how much variation carry out vice-presidential picks really create in vote-castings?