.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: “I don’t recollect a solitary instance where a vice-presidential applicant assisted a selecting ballot.” Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of “The Yellowish Flower of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy confessed that “our team could not have carried the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is currently gotten wisdom. But how much distinction do vice-presidential picks in fact create in political elections?