.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not recall a solitary case where a vice-presidential candidate supported a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator coming from Texas will help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "our company couldn't have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is right now obtained understanding. But the amount of distinction perform vice-presidential choices in fact make in elections?