MY VOTE SHOULD COUNT!!

Does it bother anyone else that most of the presidential election has already been decided, with only a couple states making a difference between victory by Barack Obama or Mitt Romney? To listen to CNN tonight, you would wonder why those of us in the "decided" states even bother to vote. The map was awash in red and blue, with only Florida, Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan, Ohio and a small handful of other states in other colors. These states, apparently, all have citizens that can vote and have it make a difference.
Courtesy of our antiquated Electoral College system, the presidency is decided by these few guys in these few states, rather than every vote counting towards an election based on a popular vote by the populace. I know I pitched an incredible fit about this when Gore "lost" to Bush all those years ago. I had hoped that the people's outrage over being circumnavigated by the Electoral College would bring about some kind of change. But sadly, that change is in the hands of the same people that should vote themselves term limits: the United States Congress, a body as puffed up with its own importance as the Electoral College.
Wouldn't it be a treat to have, say, every person vote for a president, and have that vote go into a big pool labelled, "Candidate A," "Candidate B," and "Candidate C"? (Because there should be a more viable third option, folks, seriously.) Wouldn't it be awesome if every vote counted towards a number that would get a guy into the White House, and not counted towards what amounts to a "suggestion" for the Electoral College, which picks who an entire state will put their support behind? Wouldn't it be great if we didn't know who won the presidency until every citizen had voted? Wouldn't it be great if the Founding Fathers had a bit more insight into how bloated and selfish some of these governmental bodies would get, and had the foresight to nip these issues in the bud?
Ugh. The political structure in this country drives me frickin' batty sometimes.