.SHORTLY AFTER revealing his run for the Democratic nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy stated: "I don't remember a single case where a vice-presidential applicant supported an electoral 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 throughout the South in a train nicknamed the LBJ Express, coming to rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the stress of "The Yellow Flower of Texas". After he succeeded, Kennedy confessed that "our company couldn't have lugged the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is now acquired wisdom. However the amount of variation carry out vice-presidential selections actually make in vote-castings?