Its not that CA is juicing the data, its that in this game of esoteric warfare we're living in, why wouldn't they put saline in the shots sent to the richest bluest areas?

This is part of maintaining the cognitive dissonance among average Americans. As long as the rich libs can maintain the veneer of narrative control amongst the next tier of society, who take their cues from the limousine libs at the top, they believe they'll just gaslight everyone else into submission. So this would be the next 20% wealthiest Americans (the lawyer / NGO / programmer / corporate middle management class). The leftist moron millennials / genz tiktok crowd are just easily bought off.

This is how it works. This is how they are attempting to get away with it, as long as they can keep society extremely silo'd & fragmented then nobody in the top 20% will start pushing back (which is what is needed considering they control the hiring / firing of everyone else).