.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: “I do not recall a single instance where a vice-presidential candidate supported a selecting ballot.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of “The Yellowish Flower of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy admitted that “our experts could not have actually brought the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is actually now acquired wisdom. But the amount of variation carry out vice-presidential selections really make in political elections?