.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I do not remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential prospect contributed a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator from Texas would aid 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 pressures of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he won, Kennedy admitted that "our team could not have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually right now acquired wisdom. But just how much variation do vice-presidential choices in fact create in political elections?