While the president doesn't have control over natural disasters, he largely controls our national responses to them. But that is an absurd answer to counter the calamities caused by two recent presidents who lost the popular vote but won the electoral college vote.

And if you think disenfranchisement of women, men without significant property, and people of color who also happen to be slaves   indicates "a pretty good assessment of human nature", that is irrelevant since our Constitution has been amended to give equal citizenship and equal protection under the law to those citizens shunned by our founding "fathers".

The Constitution gave the states representation through the electoral college through weighted census count, but left to the states how to choose those electors, whether by rough proportion to the vote or winner-takes-all. Either course is an end-run around the wishes of the citizens of the nation as a whole, and was intended as such, a compromise insisted on b the South.