It may normally be too early for the polls to count, but she probably has better name recognition than Nelson. She needs to get the "Cruella DeVille" smashed and smashed good. I have no idea how to do that.
Unfortunately, that's the problem. She's had 5 years to try to combat the perceptions, and she's failed to make any headway. She's not going to turn that around in the next 10 months.