.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't recollect a singular case where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy confessed that "our experts could not have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually now gotten understanding. But just how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections actually make in vote-castings?