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It's hard to separate cause and effect there. Was she unliked because of the FUD or did the FUD stick because she was unliked?
It was a close election so it was a perfect storm of a bunch of things lining up all at once. Given how close it was, if the FUD did cause the outcome, avoiding some of those errors might have been enough to win.