.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: “I do not recall a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential prospect supported an electoral ballot.” Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician from Texas would certainly aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of “The Yellowish Rose of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that “our company could not have actually held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “provided the South” is actually now acquired understanding. But the amount of variation perform vice-presidential picks actually create in elections?