Here in the United States, Tuesday was primary day for nine states. In Rhode Island, Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee staved off a challenge from former investment banker Steve Laffey. In Minnesota”s fifth district, Keith Ellison, a state legislator, won the Democratic Congressional nomination defeating three rivals to put him on a path to become the first Muslim member of Congress. In New York, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer won the Democratic nomination for governor. Andrew Cuomo beat out Mark Green for the nomination to run as Spitzer’s replacement. And Senator Hillary Clinton won a renomination over anti-war challenger Jonathan Tasini. In a statement, Tasini said: “People throughout this campaign have come up to me and said that they were so grateful they had a choice — a choice that they could express their opposition to this illegal and immoral war, their frustration that in this county 40 million people don’t have health care, and their anger that corporations are waging a class warfare against their workers. I am proud that we have given them that choice.”