Doug Collins was never the presumed winner of the Republican runoff election for the U.S. House 9th District seat. Collins, who advanced to the next round in the quest to become representative of Georgia’s newest U.S. House district with a nearly 10 percentage point margin, came into the final primary round with little room to breathe. His only opponent on Tuesday, Martha Zoller, had ended the July 31 contest within spitting distance of Collins, falling a mere 734 votes — seven-tenths of a percentage point — behind the former state representative from Gainesville.