.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: “I do not recollect a solitary situation where a vice-presidential prospect supported an appointing vote.” Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas will aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore around the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of “The Yellow Flower 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 right now gotten knowledge. Yet the amount of distinction carry out vice-presidential choices actually create in political elections?