.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: “I do not recall a solitary case where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an appointing vote.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas will aid him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that “our company could not have brought the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is right now received wisdom. However just how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections really create in vote-castings?