Underrated Biden advantage; Republican brain drain?

[Skill and Chance]

Hmmm... campaign staffers are generally young people, often straight out of college.  Like 40% of young people are graduating college now, so I doubt the marginal Gen Z college grad is substantially smarter and/or more academically motivated than average anymore.  Campaign jobs don't pay well compared to most post-college jobs and aren't filled in a particularly meritocratic way, so there's no reason to expect they would disproportionately be drawing the smartest/most conscientious college grads out there. 

So no, I don't really think there's a significant brain drain effect, at least for campaign workers.  Also, keep in mind that Republican candidates/elected officials are still overwhelmingly college grads or higher in educational attainment (and from an era when many fewer people went to college).  There's literally 1 US Senator who didn't graduate a 4 year equivalent college, and he's a business owner plumber who reported 10's of millions of dollars in assets on his financial filings.