.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not recollect a singular instance where a vice-presidential candidate contributed an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our experts could not have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is actually now acquired wisdom. Yet how much distinction carry out vice-presidential choices really create in political elections?