The only good thing about not being in a swing state was that I didn't have to listen to all those horrible political advertisements. I watched an Philadelphia Eagle football game (Pennsylvania was a swing state) and caught a lot of those lies, I mean political advertisements and had to shut it off.
I understand what people are saying about the small states, but the Wyomings and Alabamas were ignored since they were Bush states. I'm sure not too many people cared about Connecticut which was a Kerry state. If there was no electoral college, both candidates would have to talk to ALL of us, not just those in the swing states.
If I remember my US history, wasn't the electoral college instituted since the money class didn't trust us peasants to elect the "right" person as President. I think we could do the job just fine.