.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: “I don’t recall a solitary instance where a vice-presidential prospect supported an electoral ballot.” Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the legislator from Texas will aid him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that “our team could not have actually brought the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is actually currently received wisdom. Yet how much distinction carry out vice-presidential selections actually create in political elections?