.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: “I do not recollect a single scenario where a vice-presidential applicant contributed a selecting vote.” Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy accepted that “our team couldn’t have held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is now received knowledge. However just how much difference carry out vice-presidential choices in fact create in political elections?