Sorry.
The answer to your original question is a qualified "We vote nationally for pres/Vice Pres."
All the other stuff is true...But to most people in the USA, those details (like the exact method of selection of electors to/for the electoral collage) are just complicated formalities that happen behind the curtains.
There has only been 2 cases in all of American history where a President was elected without recieving the most popular votes. (Bush and Kennedy I believe...In both cases the popular vote was almost evenly split 50:50)
No messing with you there.