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Tribune editorial: Can Mitt Romney help save the Senate? Utahns should let him try.

There really isn’t another explanation for the 71-year-old former corporate titan and presidential contender wanting to be just one of a hundred in a public body that has been debasing itself lately.

Can Romney — as a blue state governor turned red state senator — really find a way back for the U.S. Senate to be the august and productive chamber it was meant to be? Romney is aiming for nothing less.

He would arrive as not just another freshman. At a time when the very essence of Congress is in play, Romney has gravitas.