.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: “I don’t remember a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an electoral ballot.” Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of “The Yellowish Rose of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that “our experts could not have carried the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is currently acquired knowledge. Yet just how much distinction do vice-presidential picks in fact make in political elections?