.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: “I do not recall a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential candidate supported a selecting vote.” Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of “The Yellowish Rose of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that “our company couldn’t have actually held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “provided the South” is currently obtained understanding. But the amount of variation carry out vice-presidential selections in fact make in elections?