.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not recall a single situation where a vice-presidential candidate supported a selecting vote." Still, the north-easterner chosen Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the statesman coming from Texas would help him in southern states. Johnson tore all over the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "our team couldn't have actually carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is currently acquired knowledge. Yet just how much distinction do vice-presidential picks actually create in political elections?