Why Tom Menino gets elected again and again and again...

Because despite a gimpy leg that compels him to hobble about on crutches, he is more than game to get up early in the morning put on a good suit and make his way down to South Boston where a certain big name local Insurance Company was hosting a meet-n-greet with several famous former Red Sox players.
This picture is time stamped 8:20am EST, 4-20-2012, Hizzoner is pushing seventy years of age, but if some Red Sox Magnificos are underfoot, then Tom wants in.
This is how he does it folks, George Washington Plunkett once called politics a "business like any other" and this is Tom Menino's business, schmoozing, gladhanding, making with the personal no matter how much time and a bum knee may gnaw at him.
You may dismiss this as an atavistic endeavor only if you truly believe that today's penchant for "brand management politics" and the candidacies of flickering holograms like Mitt Romney is ineffably superior to olde timey methods and tropes.