Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley was a cranky newspaper editor who carried the liberal republican and democratic banners against Grant. He was the founder and editor of the New York Tribune and a vocal critic of President Ulysses S. Grant's administration. Greeley ran for president in 1872 as the nominee of the Liberal Republican Party and the Democratic Party, but lost to Grant.
Alfred M. Landon
In the election of 1858, democrat Stephen A. Douglas from IL ran for reelection to the senate and republican Abraham Lincoln ran against him. Douglas won, but Lincoln became a national figure.
Mixed and variable over the years with 14 Democrats and 9 Republican Governors since it became a state. The current At Large US Reprentative is a Republican but both US Senators and the current Governor are Democrats. In the 2008 Presidential election John McCain carried the state.
It leans towards the Democratic Party. In Presidential elections, it has been carried by the Democratic party in every election since 1992. Prior to that, it tended to be carried by the Republicans. The State currently has a Republican Governor, but the legislature is strongly Democratic.
I would say Southern states nowadays are generally carried by the Republican party. However, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries the South tended to vote for the Democrats, who were ideologically different than today's Democratic party.
Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary election in Ohio on March 4, 2008.
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Bush (R) carried Virginia in 2004.
Ohio is a swing state, and has often decided the result of elections. In 2004, George Bush won Ohio by a margin of 120,000. Had 60,000 Bush voters voted for Kerry instead, John Kerry would have carried the State and won the electoral vote.
For the Republican Party it was Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge and for the Democratic Party it was John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.
The only state that has been carried by every Republican winner of a U. S. Presidential Election is Ohio. In addition, North Dakota, Arizona and Alaska have been carried by every Republican Presidential election winner for as long as they have been states.