Actually, there's something to be said for that.
I can imagine, even if off target, that a lot of people don't think strategically about our three-tiered system of government and elections. I'm not a Democrat because I have an agenda; I'm a Democrat because there is no other moral, practical and common-sense choice. None of the "third parties" will ever get enough votes, and the prior experience of their candidates sort of misses the mark a bit.
So, thinking strategically, I worry about empty Senate seats and empty seats in the lower House.
Harris will continue to do just fine as Senator. Maybe Schiff would be a good AG -- how would it be otherwise, with all of his prosecutorial and committee experience? But let's just see. Do we really think the Intel Committee's business will be finished in January 2021?
There are often too many cases of musical chairs in politics, or too many cases for my liking. In chess, you might want your Queen on the long diagonal with free rank and file.
Perhaps the problem with all this is the myth that people believe all their lives: "If I vote, I have a smorgasbord of choices. A little of this, a little of that, some ambrosia salad and some potato salad to go with the chimichangas."
No you don't. It's less about choice than it is about legitimizing the holding of office for a term. That way, the electorate can tell themselves they "got their two cents in".
That's how President A**-Master got elected. "I don't like my choices! I have a choice! I'm going to vote for the most disgusting white person ever on TV since the Berlin Games of 1936, because I don't like my choices, and Obama was a slap in the face to the Great White Race! In fact, I'm NOT going to vote at all, to 'make a statement' that I don't have any choices!"
Chuckleheads . . . .