.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I don't remember a singular scenario where a vice-presidential applicant supported a selecting ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts couldn't have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is currently received knowledge. But just how much distinction do vice-presidential choices actually create in political elections?