Economy

Do vice-presidential selections issue?

.SHORTLY AFTER announcing his run for the Autonomous election in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: "I do not remember a singular case where a vice-presidential prospect assisted an appointing ballot." Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, really hoping that the statesman from Texas would certainly aid him in southern states. Johnson tore across the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of "The Yellowish Flower of Texas". After he gained, Kennedy accepted that "our team couldn't have carried the South without Johnson". That Johnson "provided the South" is actually right now received wisdom. However the amount of difference perform vice-presidential picks really create in political elections?

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