.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: “I don’t recollect a single scenario where a vice-presidential prospect supported a selecting vote.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician from Texas would certainly assist him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that “our company couldn’t have carried the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “provided the South” is actually right now obtained understanding. Yet just how much difference carry out vice-presidential choices really create in elections?