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While the polls had been showing a close race up until a week before the election, when the election finally came up, Reagan held a surprisingly strong victory.  Carter capitulated while voting was still going on in the west, which angered his party as many Democratic Congressmen lost their elections after that and blamed Carter for his premature announcement that caused a number of Democratic voters not to go to the polls.<ref>[[Encyclopedia of Presidents, Ronald Reagan]], by Zachary Kent, Children's Press, 1989, pp. 56-59.</ref>

While the polls had been showing a close race up until a week before the election, when the election finally came up, Reagan held a surprisingly strong victory.  Carter capitulated while voting was still going on in the west, which angered his party as many Democratic Congressmen lost their elections after that and blamed Carter for his premature announcement that caused a number of Democratic voters not to go to the polls.<ref>[[Encyclopedia of Presidents, Ronald Reagan]], by Zachary Kent, Children's Press, 1989, pp. 56-59.</ref>

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