Article snippet: Most popular on BostonGlobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — Does a 70-year-old former presidential nominee really want to be the junior senator from Utah? To take office as one of the oldest first-time United States senators in history? Give up a life of water-skiing, ice cream, and grandkids for one of subcommittee hearings, roll-call votes, and partisan bickering? Well, yes. Maybe. Rumors persist over whether Mitt Romney may run for US Senate next year in Utah, and some people close to the former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Republican presidential nominee say that he isn’t ruling out a bid for the seat. “He has mixed feelings,” said one Romney adviser who pegged the likelihood of a run at 30 percent or 40 percent. There are a number of considerations Romney is mulling, and no one expects him to get into the race if Senator Orrin Hatch, the seven-term senator, decides to run for reelection. But if Hatch, who is 83, decides to retire, Romney is undergoing a deliberative examination of the pros and cons of jumping into a race that he almost certainly would win. One of the downsides is that Romney — who ran a business, ran a state, and tried to run a country — would be one of 100. Most politicians cut a strong profile in the Senate as a possible springboard to national office; Romney would be going in reverse. Then there’s his experience as someone calling the shots, not following t... Link to the full article to read more