Why Did President Jimmy Carter Lose The Election To Ronald Reagan?
It was the Iranian hostage crisis and the American people’s perception of the President’s failure to deal with the problem in an appropriate manner which led to the decline in the popularity of the President and his subsequent defeat in the Presidential elections. This one issue is believed to be the single most important one in the last year of Jimmy Carter’s presidency and it over shadowed all the other accomplishments of the President. He was regarded by many as not being a good war time President or being hard enough on the Iranians. Though there had been a rescue attempt, it had resulted in failure. The Iranians also seemed unwilling to be reasonable. After the Iranians had stormed the American Embassy they also uncovered documents and evidence that in ways proved that the Shah’s regime was in more ways than one backed by the Americans. Involvement of the CIA and Mossad was also evident and this in many ways was embarrassing to Jimmy Carter; Ronal Regan was of course made of other
