I am one of those 538 National Elector's and yes the Electoral College is in play [View all]

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I am one of those 538 National Elector's and yes the Electoral College is in play
By RWN Sunday Nov 20, 2016

I am one of the Electoral College Electors from Colorado. This is by virtue of Hillary Clinton prevailing in Colorado (moving me from a nominated certified Elector to “actual” Elector. Late last week I canvassed half my fellow CO Electors beginning with Micheal Baca who is mentioned here in the Denver Post article: Colorado presidential elector seeks to block Donald Trump from White House, and also including talking to numerous political reporters in both print and national on line media, (AKA; John Frank the author of the above article and Kyle Cheney from Politico, author of this article, Here are the people who will cast the formal vote for president next month​, political science and presidential history university scholars, law school professors, political professionals, elected and government officials and I have come to the conclusion: INDEED THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS IN AN HISTORIC PLAY. Where this goes is speculation but sentiment is building that the Electors cannot sit by and be ceremonial.

This assertion is based on the above observations where each Elector I talked to are interested in participating in action. This includes the majority being Hillary supporters and party regulars. The reporters and political persons all tell me they are hearing similar, consistent, sentiments across this country. The fact that this election cycle has consistently been unprecedented, and unpredictable, and as those who know math, and mathematical trends, know that trends continue until the something stops that trend line. So why would this election cycle stop being weird until it is constitutionally over? No reason, and why the framers put in the Electoral College in the first place.

Something else that is apparent is that National Electors will have to choose between their partisanship and finding a rational and responsible pathway to doing what is best for the nation fulfilling their constitutional duties of protecting our constitutional form of government from excesses of democracy, (or corruption or manipulation), and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation. Previously, all predictions and expectations regarding this election’s outcome regarding the projection Electoral College are based on Electors being wholly partisan, and yet those are not the sentiments from my fellow Colorado’s Electors, nor are they what I am being told are sentiments by some Republican Electors.

So where is this leading us over the next 30 days or so to December 19, 2016, which is Electoral College Day? ............