Overall, America was very angry at Carter and it was very clear that Reagan was going to win the presidential election. Reagan won the electoral college vote 489 to 44 which was a very wide margin. Although Reagan was no the one who released the hostages, he is still thought to have played a large role in the Iran Hostage Crisis because they were released on his inauguration day. America was not happy with their president, and so this made the government a lot weaker because the people did not support their actions. We were in need of a change and coincidentally as soon as he was president things were already getting better.