Well you make a good point about Illinois.
The same one I was making about Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado — etc. Funny, you weren’t too concerned about those “big wins” for some reason.
If Democrat leaning states want more voice in delegate selection, then they should adopt the Maine and Nebraska system for awarding presidential electors: two for the statewide winner, one for the winner of each congressional district.
We had such legislation introduced in Pennsylvania with solid GOP majorities in both the House and State Senate. Governor Corbett had pledged to sign it.
The only thing which stopped it was an intense lobbying effort by Rob Gleason, our Quisling GOP Chairman, who feared it would dilute his influence. There needs to be consequences for so-called GOP leadership which works for the other team. Weighing delegate counts by electoral votes actually delivered would certainly be a step in that direction. Particular if states adopt the district system and get the delegate formula adjusted based on electoral votes which would have been awarded had the system been in place.
In general, far to much of the delegate allocation is based on remote possibility of a state to award electoral votes to the GOP candidate in the fall and far too little on realistic chances and actual past performance.
This needs to be a top priority in reforming the GOP.