.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy pointed out: “I do not remember a single instance where a vice-presidential prospect contributed an electoral vote.” Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician from Texas will help him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of “The Yellowish Rose of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy admitted that “we could not have actually brought the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “delivered the South” is currently acquired wisdom. Yet the amount of variation do vice-presidential choices in fact make in political elections?