.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: “I don’t recall a solitary situation where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an electoral ballot.” Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician coming from Texas would aid him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy confessed that “our experts could not have actually brought the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is now obtained wisdom. However how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections really make in political elections?