.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: "I do not remember a single scenario where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy accepted that "our company couldn't have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually now obtained knowledge. Yet how much distinction do vice-presidential picks really make in vote-castings?