.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: “I do not remember a single case where a vice-presidential applicant supported a selecting ballot.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician from Texas would help him in southern conditions. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, getting to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of “The Yellow Rose of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy admitted that “our team couldn’t have actually held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is now gotten understanding. However the amount of difference carry out vice-presidential selections really create in vote-castings?