.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: “I don’t recollect a single case where a vice-presidential prospect supported a selecting vote.” Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the senator coming from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy admitted that “our experts couldn’t have actually lugged the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “provided the South” is now gotten wisdom. Yet the amount of difference perform vice-presidential choices really make in vote-castings?