glad-hand 
verb [with object]
(Especially of a politician) greet or welcome warmly: they had been taking every free minute to glad-hand loyal supporters...
- It was Monday last week, and the president was glad-handing with the great and the good at the Cincinnati Museum Centre in Ohio as he waited to give one of his most bellicose speeches yet.
- Her dad is a politician, who is so used to glad-handing his constituents he has forgotten how to talk to his daughter.
- With so many people in one place at one time, the state fair provides an opportunity for politicians to glad-hand and meet the constituents.
noun (glad hand) [in singular]
A warm and hearty greeting or welcome: get out your glad hand and go strike up conversations...
- In the meantime, the popular word is that he has already been given the glad hand by the party leader.
- However, since this is salvation for the government's strategy, they may get the glad hand yet.
Derivatives
glad-hander
- When principled limitations to the scope of government are absent, the necessities of government become mere side projects of vote hunting glad-handers and crony-bureaucrats.
- I'm glad I got to see the obvious pleasure he took in pausing for a few words with his glad-handers, including the kids right behind me who pleaded with him for a photo opportunity.
- Even early in his first term, there were those who considered him unbearably pious, prone to empty idealism and windy intellectual pronouncements - a spinner, a glad-hander.