[SDGOP]

Thats largely because of name recognition. Nobody knows who allen is right now and if you check the uber blogosphere poll that hugh hewitt/patrick ruffini used to run(the one where 10s of thousands of blog readers woudl vote), allen would beat rudy.

[Jameison]

"if you check the uber blogosphere poll that hugh hewitt"

Not only did I regularly check Hugh Hewitt's 2008 presidential polls, I used to vote in them myself.
There was not a single one in which Allen even came close to beating Rudy.

The top 2 used to be Condi and Rudy, with Rudy leading when Condi was excluded.