Hillary Clinton wins primary contest with ease

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer cruised to landslide victories in New York state’s Democratic primary day, turning back long-shot challengers on a night that produced a string of lopsided state-wide contests.

In the other big-ticket races, former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer soundly defeated a Pentagon official from the Reagan administration in the GOP Senate primary, and one-time federal Housing Secretary Andrew Cuomo easily won the Democratic nomination for attorney general.