.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I don't recollect a singular situation where a vice-presidential candidate supported an electoral ballot." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy acknowledged that "our company couldn't have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is now obtained understanding. Yet the amount of variation carry out vice-presidential selections actually make in political elections?