.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not remember a single situation where a vice-presidential prospect supported an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator from Texas will help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our team couldn't have actually brought the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is now obtained understanding. But how much difference carry out vice-presidential choices really make in elections?