.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: “I don’t remember a singular scenario where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an appointing ballot.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician from Texas will help him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of “The Yellowish Flower of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy confessed that “our experts couldn’t have actually brought the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is right now gotten wisdom. Yet how much variation perform vice-presidential selections actually create in political elections?