.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not recall a solitary situation where a vice-presidential applicant supported an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our company could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually right now received understanding. Yet how much variation do vice-presidential selections in fact create in elections?