Scott Brown is shaking in his boots and whining about how special interests are out to get him. He’s right. The interests of the people of the United States are special and they are the ones contributing record amounts to elect Elizabeth Warren as Senator from MA.

These numbers really are quite astonishing for anyone, let alone someone with no prior political experience.

via The Boston Globe :

Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School 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 unusually large amount for a first-time candidate and a reflection of what many observers say is her potent appeal to party leaders and activists eager to recapture the seat once held by Edward M. Kennedy.

Her overall fund-raising for the three final months of 2011 far outpaced Senator Scott Brown’s $3.2-million total for the same period.

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Tad Devine, an experienced Washington-based Democratic media consultant, said Warren’s fund-raising prowess is startling for a candidate with no background in electoral politics.

“That is an extraordinary amount of money to be raised by a first-time candidate,’’ he said…