.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: "I do not recollect a singular instance where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our team could not have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is currently gotten wisdom. But how much distinction do vice-presidential picks actually make in elections?