.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: “I don’t remember a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential applicant assisted an appointing vote.” Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of “The Yellowish Flower of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that “our experts couldn’t have carried the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is now received understanding. But the amount of difference perform vice-presidential choices in fact make in elections?