Elizabeth Warren wins Mass. Senate race

Catalina Camia | USATODAY

Democrat Elizabeth Warren has won Massachusetts Senate race and turned GOP incumbent Sen. Scott Brown out of office.

On a night when up to a dozen Senate races were in play, the Massachusetts race was the premiere contest in the battle for majority control.

Brown shot to national fame in January 2010 when he won a special election to succeed Democratic icon Edward Kennedy, who died in August 2009. The former state senator became an instant Democratic target for defeat in this election cycle.

Warren, a Harvard University law professor, has become a liberal darling in her first race for elected office. She helped President Obama create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and won a featured speaking slot at the Democratic convention in Charlotte.

"Progressives just won our marquee race of 2012 and elected a leader who will shake up the corridors of power from Washington to Wall Street," said Stephanie Taylor, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, one of Warren's earliest supporters. The group raised more than $1 million for Warren.