 As a result of the 2012 elections, 12 of Ohio's 16 members of the U.S. House of Representatives are Republicans.The Great Plains states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas have been strongholds for the Republicans for many decades.These four states have gone for the Republican candidate in every presidential election since 1940, except for Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide over Barry Goldwater in 1964.