.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: “I do not recall a singular situation where a vice-presidential candidate assisted an appointing ballot.” Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician coming from Texas will aid him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of “The Yellowish Flower of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy admitted that “we could not have actually held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is actually now obtained wisdom. Yet the amount of distinction carry out vice-presidential picks really create in vote-castings?