.SHORTLY AFTER introducing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: "I do not recall a solitary case where a vice-presidential applicant assisted a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, hoping that the politician from Texas will assist him in southern conditions. Johnson tore across the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Rose of Texas". After he won, Kennedy acknowledged that "our company could not have held the South without Johnson". That Johnson "supplied the South" is right now gotten knowledge. But how much variation perform vice-presidential choices in fact make in political elections?