.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't recollect a single case where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the senator coming from Texas will help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "we couldn't have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is actually now gotten wisdom. But just how much distinction carry out vice-presidential picks actually make in political elections?