.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: “I do not recall a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential applicant supported a selecting vote.” Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas would help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy accepted that “our team could not have held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is currently acquired wisdom. Yet just how much difference do vice-presidential choices really make in elections?