.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: “I don’t remember a singular situation where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an appointing vote.” Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that “we could not have carried the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “provided the South” is actually currently acquired wisdom. But how much distinction carry out vice-presidential picks really make in elections?