.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't remember a single case where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an electoral vote." Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas would assist him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that "our experts could not have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "delivered the South" is now acquired understanding. But just how much difference do vice-presidential choices in fact create in elections?