A ticket to unify the nation
In most election years the candidates for vice president have little real effect on election outcomes. The most often cited exception to this is the presence on the long ago 1960 Democratic ticket of Sen. Lyndon Johnson, who probably carried Johnson’s home state of Texas for the Kennedy — Johnson ticket. People now on Social Security were barely born in that year of JFK and LBJ.
The rollicking politics of this year, however, may set the stage for a real and meaningful selection for vice president.
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