.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: “I don’t recall a singular instance where a vice-presidential prospect contributed a selecting ballot.” Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of “The Yellowish Rose of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that “we could not have actually held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “provided the South” is actually now received understanding. However how much variation carry out vice-presidential picks in fact make in political elections?