Which was a problem confronted president carter as the 1980 election approached?

The Iran Hostage Crisis

The failed attempt to rescue the hostages barely affected Mr Carter's standing - it was seen as a reasonable political throw even if the military planning and hardware caused some agonising - but he took a further, and probably fatal, knock when he suddenly announced afterwards that the crisis which had kept him off hustings all those months had now become "manageable" and that he would be hitting the campaign trail. The comments heard among ordinary voters in cities and towns across the country were universally disbelieving. They had little quarrel with his basic decision to fight for re-election - his ducking and weaving around it. Mr Carter had become just another politician, and removed most of the reason many people had for voting him into another term.

As this feeling spread among the members of the Democratic Party, it produced the attempted revolt against his renomination by a group of dissident Congressmen and by many of the party members who had supported Kennedy in the primaries.