.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not recall a solitary situation where a vice-presidential prospect supported an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the legislator coming from Texas would certainly help him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the strains of "The Yellow Rose of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "we could not have actually held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is now gotten wisdom. But how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections in fact make in political elections?