.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: “I don’t recall a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential prospect supported an electoral ballot.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator coming from Texas would certainly assist him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of “The Yellowish Flower of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy confessed that “we couldn’t have held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “provided the South” is right now obtained knowledge. Yet just how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections really make in political elections?