Presidential candidates have ALWAYS been "anointed"! What on earth do you imagine that the term "SMOKE FILLED ROOM" refers to?
And going back to Teddy Roosevelt, he was "anointed", by the N.Y.state GOP, to be McKinley's VEEP, even BEFORE the GOP Convention, in order to get him out of Albany, where he was wrecking havoc with the status quo and keep him quite.
Factual history is your friend...learn some!
No actually the way we elect POTUS now is about as far removed from the framers intentions as it can possibly be. They never intended for one or two parties to OWN that office as they do now. Article 2 section 1 allows for the majority of the vote holders by the electors to be POTUS. If no majority is reached then the TOP 5 candidates receiving votes are then voted on and an elimination from there. That would in effect end the two party choke hold on the office of POTUS. BTW this would be done in front of everyone.