We the States or We the People?

Last class, my G block AP Government class discussed how valid our vote really is during the presidential elections. Votes from the American citizens are filtered into representatives that necessarily don't always take the majority vote to represent the state. We can be represented through many branches of government, but when it comes down to the main presidential election our votes are altered and become more of a general consensus of a representative than of the people.
I believe the population should represent itself in the presidential elections.By letting a representative of the state take the votes as suggestions rather than actual votes, the people are not clearly represented. This is the reason, for such a large population not participating in the voting polls. How can a president run his or her country, if he or she only knows half the country's opinion? I disagree with the declining power our vote really has, by being filtered through a state representative rather than the people itself. We the people is how the constitution describes about our nation not we the states.
- Jeneeka