.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: “I do not recall a solitary case where a vice-presidential applicant assisted an electoral vote.” Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman coming from Texas would certainly aid him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy admitted that “our company couldn’t have actually held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is actually right now gotten understanding. Yet just how much distinction do vice-presidential picks actually make in political elections?