.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: “I do not recollect a single situation where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an appointing ballot.” Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of “The Yellowish Rose of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that “our team couldn’t have carried the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is now gotten knowledge. But just how much distinction perform vice-presidential selections actually create in vote-castings?