.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his compete the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: “I don’t recollect a single scenario where a vice-presidential candidate contributed a selecting vote.” Still, the north-easterner selected Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician from Texas would aid him in southern conditions. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of “The Yellowish Rose of Texas”.
After he won, Kennedy accepted that “we couldn’t have actually held the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is actually now acquired wisdom. However just how much distinction do vice-presidential picks really make in political elections?