.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy claimed: “I do not remember a single case where a vice-presidential applicant contributed a selecting vote.” Still, the north-easterner decided on Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the politician from Texas will assist him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, arriving at rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the tensions of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that “our team couldn’t have actually lugged the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is currently acquired knowledge. However the amount of variation perform vice-presidential picks in fact create in vote-castings?