.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: “I don’t recall a singular case where a vice-presidential candidate assisted a selecting ballot.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator coming from Texas will help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that “we couldn’t have actually held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is actually now received understanding. Yet the amount of variation do vice-presidential selections really make in elections?