.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: “I don’t remember a solitary case where a vice-presidential applicant assisted a selecting ballot.” Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas would help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of “The Yellowish Rose of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy accepted that “we couldn’t have brought the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “provided the South” is currently acquired understanding. Yet just how much difference perform vice-presidential choices actually make in vote-castings?