.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: “I do not recall a single scenario where a vice-presidential applicant supported an electoral vote.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator from Texas would certainly assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of “The Yellowish Flower of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that “our company couldn’t have held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is actually currently acquired knowledge. However just how much difference perform vice-presidential choices really make in elections?