.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not remember a single situation where a vice-presidential prospect contributed a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman from Texas would aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our company couldn't have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually right now received wisdom. However the amount of variation carry out vice-presidential selections really make in elections?