.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not recollect a singular case where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an appointing vote." Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy confessed that "our team could not have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now received wisdom. Yet how much difference do vice-presidential choices actually create in elections?