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The AP says "a flurry of money and polling upended the Republican presidential field during the first three months of the year."

A little known former governor is now the GOP's leading fundraiser. The party's presumed front-runner is fighting to stay in the leaders' pack. And a sharp-elbowed New Yorker with liberal social views is leading the popularity contest.

The story's about fund-raising, so it doens't mention the biggest thing to "upend" the GOP field in recent months: the possible candidacy of Fred Thompson, whose mere public speculation about a possible bid soon put him in second or third place in various polls without raising or spending a dime.