.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: “I don’t recollect a single situation where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an appointing ballot.” Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the legislator from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that “we could not have actually carried the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is actually currently acquired understanding. However the amount of difference do vice-presidential picks really make in vote-castings?