Delaware has only three electoral votes, but with its neighbors Pennsylvania and New Jersey trending toward Bush, it is hard to believe that Delaware should be counted as strongly pro-Kerry. The Wilmington metro area is part of the East Coast megalopolis, closely allied with metro Philadelphia. If the other parts of the Delaware Valley are not strongly pro-Kerry, it is hard to believe that metro Wilmington would differ. The rest of the state is rural, with demographics closer to the Tidewater South than to the rural Northeast: a basically English-American, Protestant (usually Methodist) majority and a large African-American minority. Agriculture (mostly poultry) and tourism are the principal industries, not unlike the Tidewater areas of the states to Delaware's south. Dover, the capital city, has the usual characteristics of state capitals, with a large number of liberal-leaning state employees.
The bottom line is that Delaware should be in play in this election.