Germany has a new chancellor. Today, members of parliament elected the conservative Friedrich Merz to lead the country's new government. A history-making moment in German politics -- but, many would argue, for all the wrong reasons. In what would become the first round of voting, Merz came up too short. It took a second round of voting to give Merz the win. An unprecedented moment in German political history. The saying goes: if you don't succeed at first, try again. That may have worked to