.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: “I don’t remember a singular scenario where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an appointing ballot.” Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that “we couldn’t have brought the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is currently received wisdom. However how much distinction perform vice-presidential choices actually create in vote-castings?