.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: “I do not recall a solitary scenario where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an appointing vote.” Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the senator from Texas would certainly assist him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of “The Yellowish Rose of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy confessed that “our company couldn’t have actually lugged the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is actually now obtained knowledge. But the amount of variation do vice-presidential choices in fact make in political elections?