McCarthy’s win is but a taste of what’s to come Peters Township, Pa.: Kevin McCarthy suffered 14 humiliating defeats before finally getting his opponents to blink. Many who swore they would never vote for him either agreed to do so or to vote “present” so he would have the bare majority he needed to slide to victory. Many of those who engaged in the fray, which triggered shouts of profanity and almost resulted in fisticuffs, sought to portray what took place as beneficial. Democracy is messy, they told us. It was not seen that way throughout the country and the...