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Get your Bill McCollum autograph today! GOP reigns supreme on eBay (updated)

Posted Nov 20, 2009 by Catherine Dolinski, Tallahassee bureau

Updated Nov 20, 2009 at 06:12 PM

The 2010 races are fueling more than fund-raisers and flurries of press releases. They’re also spawning eBay auctions. A quick round of searches on contenders for statewide office produced hits including:

-Five copies of the Sept. 7, 2009 National Review featuring GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio—$15.65 a-piece. One seller is offering a copy for just $6. (Compare with the $5 sticker price of the latest edition of NR available at the magazine’s website)

-One “good condition,” hardback copy of “100 Innovative Ideas for Florida’s Future by Marco Rubio,” circa-2006—$12.60 (if you can settle for an “acceptable condition” copy, you can snag it for $2.94)

-set of seven “Charlie Crist For Governor” bumper stickers—$1.99 for the lot, the only result we found for Crist. UPDATE: one of our newsroom colleagues just found this one by searching on “governor Crist:” a collectible U.S. Governors card in “Nrmt-Mint Condition,” featuring Crist—$3.50

-small, undated card bearing the signature of Bill McCollum—$4.99

-signed BxW photo of a more youthful Bill McCollum. Addressed “To Edwin, With Best Wishes”—$9.99

Searching for McCollum on eBay also yields listings for DVDs of “Reefer Madness,” which we think is funny. (One of the cast members was named Warren McCollum.)

Where’s all the Democrat-specific memorabilia, you ask? Search us. As of this afternoon, we couldn’t come up with a single Alex Sink checkbook cover or signed photo of Kendrick Meek.

(We’re assuming that a book titled, “Paranoia: A Role Playing Game of a Darkly Humorous Future” is by a Dan Gelber who is not running for Attorney General, but we’ll be happy to stand corrected if necessary.)