When the U.S. Senate race kicked off last year, the conventional wisdom was that Jack Kingston would be hindered by the fact he was not well-known to Georgia’s voters outside the coastal counties he represented in the 1st Congressional District. Kingston would be running at a disadvantage to former Secretary of State Karen Handel, the thinking went, because she was more familiar to voters in the Republican-rich suburban counties of metro Atlanta. In last week’s Republican primary, geography did turn out to be destiny for Kingston, but not in the way the political experts initially figured.