.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not recollect a singular instance where a vice-presidential candidate contributed a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our experts could not have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually right now acquired wisdom. Yet just how much variation carry out vice-presidential choices actually make in vote-castings?