Just got finished watching American Conpsiracy: The Octopus Murders. For those that don't prescribe to conspiracies, you should watch this with an open mind. Four part documentary on Netflix.
Anyhow, Seems like there was alot of smoke and mirrors on how Reagan really got elected in such a landslide, and how $40 million was funneled to iran to keep the hostages imprisoned till after the election and only a few hours after the inaugaration ended, they were released inexplicably. The belief in the Reagan camp was privately said to be that if the hostage situation didn't go bad for Carter, he'd likely get re-elected.
Not professing to be a theorist, but to those that deny conspiracies exist altogether is equally dangerous.