.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I don't recollect a singular scenario where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman coming from Texas will assist 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 pressures of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy accepted that "our company couldn't have brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually currently acquired wisdom. Yet the amount of variation do vice-presidential choices actually create in political elections?