.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: “I don’t recollect a solitary situation where a vice-presidential prospect supported an appointing vote.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the statesman coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that “our company couldn’t have lugged the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is actually now obtained knowledge. Yet how much difference do vice-presidential picks actually create in political elections?