.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: “I don’t remember a singular scenario where a vice-presidential applicant supported an electoral vote.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of “The Yellowish Flower of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy admitted that “our experts couldn’t have actually brought the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is actually now obtained understanding. However just how much distinction do vice-presidential selections in fact create in elections?