.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not remember a single instance where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman from Texas would help him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts could not have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually right now obtained knowledge. But the amount of distinction perform vice-presidential choices really create in vote-castings?