1984? Lets see. Algore was a pro-life conservative Dim. So was Clinton. Mondale was more moderate than Obummer and he couldn’t win anything. That was 26 years ago. One of my cars is a 1984 Olds Custom Cruiser. I take it to collector car shows now and it has an historic plate. That is nothing to point to.
Lets look since ‘92. Every Pres. election went to the Rat. Locally Bill Roth was the last Repub for Senate and he was liberal and he won for name recognition mostly since the late ‘60’s. Carper beat him and he was a Lib. Castle was an official RINO. There has never been a solid right winger running or winning since COD.
Bill Roth was a supply-sider.
People in the Northeast (Wilmington is basically a Philly suburb) don’t like Cowboys. That’s what people in the Northeast thought of W. Bush. Subtract that, and you get a state that votes with the winner.
You could, if you like, argue that the Moderates in Delaware vote more frequently for the Democrat than the Republican.
Maybe they aren’t particularly political and vote for the candidate whose style they prefer. Who knows?
We’ll see in a week.