.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: “I don’t remember a single scenario where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an electoral ballot.” Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator from Texas will help him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that “our experts couldn’t have actually held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “provided the South” is actually now acquired knowledge. But just how much distinction do vice-presidential choices really create in political elections?