.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: “I don’t recollect a solitary situation where a vice-presidential prospect contributed a selecting vote.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that “we could not have carried the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “provided the South” is now obtained understanding. But how much variation do vice-presidential picks actually make in elections?