Can Albo snatch defeat from victory?

News.com.au reports:

Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s early campaign blunders have delivered a plunge in support according to a new poll with primary support dropping to just 34 per cent.

The findings in the Resolve Political Monitor suggest a hung Parliament is a real possibility with independents securing 9 per cent of the vote.

Mr Albanese has been under pressure in the first week of the campaign with unforced errors during press conferences including being unable to remember the national unemployment rate and stumbling over asylum seeker policy.

According to the Fairfax/Resolve poll voter support for the Labor opposition dropped from 38 to 34 per cent with a rise in the number of undecided voters.

Albo has had a shocker first week. Not only his gaffes on economic data and asylum seeker policy, but also his claim that he was an economic advisor to Hawke Government. He did this, as that Government was seen as very good economic managers. But it was a massive massive exaggeration (an 8.5 on the Golriz scale). He was in fact an electorate staffer to Tom Uren who was a bitten opponent’s of Hawke, and merely Minister of Local Government outside Cabinet.