.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his compete the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: “I do not recollect a singular scenario where a vice-presidential prospect assisted a selecting vote.” Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician from Texas would certainly assist him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of “The Yellowish Flower of Texas”.
After he succeeded, Kennedy accepted that “our team could not have held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is actually currently received wisdom. However how much variation do vice-presidential picks in fact make in vote-castings?