.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: “I don’t remember a single case where a vice-presidential prospect contributed a selecting vote.” Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator from Texas would help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of “The Yellowish Flower of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that “we could not have lugged the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is actually right now received knowledge. Yet just how much distinction carry out vice-presidential choices actually create in political elections?