Elizabeth Warren raises $5.7 million in final quarter of 2011 - Politics

Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate whose US Senate candidacy has fired up Democrats across the nation, raised $5.7 million in the last three months of 2011, an extraordinary amount for a first time candidate and an unmistakable reflection of what many observers say is her potent appeal to party leader and activists eager to recapture Edward M. Kennedy’s seat.