.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Democratic election in 1960, John F. Kennedy mentioned: “I don’t recall a singular situation where a vice-presidential prospect supported a selecting vote.” Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas would help him in southern states. Johnson tore around the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of “The Yellowish Rose of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy confessed that “our experts could not have actually brought the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is actually currently gotten knowledge. Yet just how much difference carry out vice-presidential selections really make in political elections?