I understand your concern but based on my understanding of the political system (United States) it wouldn't be a huge issue in at least most of the cases. I bel

I understand your concern but based on my understanding of the political system (United States) it wouldn't be a huge issue in at least most of the cases. I believe that much of the work a politician does ends up getting divided between employees/interns/etc, an older politician may just have to offload more of their workload on unimportant matters and focus on important ones (which I suspect they already all do). What do you think?