.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: “I don’t recollect a singular case where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an electoral vote.” Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician coming from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy accepted that “our company could not have actually lugged the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is actually right now acquired understanding. But how much distinction carry out vice-presidential picks really make in elections?