.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: “I don’t recall a solitary situation where a vice-presidential candidate supported an appointing vote.” Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy admitted that “our company couldn’t have held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is actually currently received wisdom. But how much distinction carry out vice-presidential picks in fact make in political elections?