The Obama camp says they found evidence that Senator Clinton has misled voters buried within Senator Clinton’s White House schedules, which were released yesterday.

“Thousands of pages of Hillary Clinton’s White House schedules released yesterday show that she was one of the administration’s top proponents of NAFTA, attending at least four meetings to advocate for its passage,” an Obama campaign memo read.

“Now that she’s running for President, Clinton has changed her tune. Less than a month ago, Clinton said at a debate that ‘I have been a critic of NAFTA from the very beginning. I didn’t have a public position on it, because I was part of the administration, but when I started running for the Senate, I have been a critic.’ Really?  Attendees at the 1993 NAFTA briefing where Clinton served as the closing act say that she was ‘totally pro-NAFTA and what a good thing it would be for the economy,’” the memo, sent to reporters, continued.

On a conference call with reporters, Obama senior advisor David Axelrod declared, “Senator Clinton told the people of Ohio and indignantly rebuffed suggestions that she had been a supporter of NAFTA, and what these papers show is that that simply wasn’t true. And you know, obviously she knew that she’d been involved in these meetings. I don’t think that slipped her mind and I’ll leave it to you and others how to characterize that. But I do think that it is clear that what she told the people of Ohio and the people this country about this wasn’t true and it does make you wonder if this is one of the reason why there was such a reluctance to get some of these records out there on a timely basis.”

This criticism from the Obama campaign comes after the Clinton camp urged Senator Obama to release his own records and schedules from his time in the Illinois state senate.

Read the entire Obama memo below the jump.

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Boca Raton, FL — While recent polling out of Florida makes the GOP primary look increasingly like a two-man battle between John McCain and Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani is arguing that we should not count him out yet.

An internal Giuliani memo suggests that the most recent polls report “conflicting results,” noting that five public polls released in the last 24 hours show McCain leading in two polls, Romney leading in two polls and a three-way tie in the last. It also argues that absentee and early voting may work in the campaign’s advantage since Giuliani has had the state to himself for the last three weeks.

But the memo does not account for the latest Mason-Dixon poll out today, showing Romney at 30%, McCain at 26% and Giuliani at 18%, further proof that despite the memo, the former NYC mayor continues to lose ground in the Sunshine State.

Read the memo below:

A handful of FL public polls released over the past few days are reporting conflicting results. These latest rounds of fluctuating public polls indicate that the race is wide open and public polling is volatile.

There were 5 public polls released over the past 24 hours, claiming different candidates to be leading.

Further complicating matters, 3 of these polls were fielded on the exact same nights (1/20-1/22). Insider Advantage reports Romney leading, St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald reports McCain leading, and Strategic Vision reports a 3 way tie.

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Senator Barack Obama hit the Vegas strip one last time this morning before flying home to Chicago. He had planned to leave prior to the start of the caucus, which was held at noon local time. “I’m going to try to see my kids before I go down to South Carolina,” he explained to reporters as he greeted employees of the Mirage Hotel and Casino in the “back of the house.” That’s Vegas-ese for employees only part of the casino.

Obama stopped by the Mirage employees’ cafeteria, kitchen, and uniform control room (which looks a lot like your local dry cleaners - but with a vending machine that pops out pantyhose for $4.50) to greet the hotel’s workers. The workers, all union members, were expected to caucus at an at-large precinct set up in a Mirage ballroom.

He greeted a myriad of staffers - cooks, cleaners, dealers, and the like - posed for pictures and made small talk. “What’s the most popular soup?” he asked a chef. If you’re wondering what the folks who eat at the Mirage prefer, it’s cream of mushroom, cream of broccoli and the clam chowder.

Senator Obama also reminded workers to caucus in his whirlwind tour. Will they? According to the pool report, when asked, one worker still hadn’t decided if he would. “I don’t know, it’s on my lunch break. I’ll think about it,” slot supervisor Eujene Rangel said.

Obama was trailed by his Secret Service detail and about a dozen journalists. When asked about possible voter intimidation here in the Silver State, Obama responded, “I want to make sure that everybody who has the right to participate in this caucus is participating. The Democratic Party has been about getting people involved in the process, not excluding them. Hopefully, that’s a tradition that we will maintain when we’re here in Nevada.”

His campaign put out a memo that, in part, addressed the concerns, alleged by President Clinton, reading he was “accusing the Culinary workers, whose support both Clintons furiously sought, of engaging in deliberate voter suppression. The conduct of the Clinton Campaign in recent weeks essentially makes the case for why we need Barack Obama - it’s the same old-style say anything or do anything to win, divisive attacks that have prevented progress in this country for so long.” (read the full memo after the jump)

And, since he was in Vegas, Obama hedged his bets on how he’d fare today (this was asked before the caucus was called for Senator Clinton). “You know I think we’re gonna do pretty well. I think its going to be close. I don’t think anyone knows what’s really going on,” he answered while walking down a narrow hallway to the exit.

Obama was scheduled to leave Vegas after his casino drop by, and so it’s not clear if and how he will concede the Nevada caucus. His press staff have yet to respond to phone calls and emails.

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