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German Votes Could Persuade Merkel to Change Course on Refugees

Gerd Mueller has voted for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) for over 40 years. Now he's having second thoughts. "I am very irritated," the 64-year-old said between business appointments in Rastatt, a well-off town of 50,000 near the border with France in Baden-Wuerttemberg, one of three German states holding elections on March 13. "I don't feel Frau Merkel is bringing us along with her,"...

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