.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential applicant supported an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "our team couldn't have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is now gotten wisdom. But how much difference carry out vice-presidential picks really create in political elections?