The bay area and LA basin is where the population is.
CA sends out ballots to every registered voter.
Only 50% participate in voting.
There is a shit load of ballots out there floating around.
In those two areas with more than half of the CA population, it is easy to "sway" the votes "properly".
On every election light, watching on the SOS web page, early votes lean conservative, and then the vote dump from those two areas overwhelms the total.
It is entrenched, and not even considered a cheat, simply the way things are.
It is supported up and down by the media, which itself is infiltrated and 98% rat infested.
The republican party cannnot even argue against the jungle primary! They allow rats to dictate how their primary is to be ran.
How toothless is that?
I was speaking of how it got to this, the California republicans were mostly social liberal rinos and so they were no match for the left that started running over them in the 70s, and in fact being social liberals they were largely not in much disagreement with the left on much of the foundational destruction of California.
Texas being social conservative had a powerful and determined reaction to the hard left democrat party, they fought for the school books and the schools, and fought everywhere they could, and it has largely worked.