DAVID GREENE, HOST: Now, aside from millions of dollars in debt, Newt Gingrich also has boxes and boxes of campaign buttons and t-shirts to deal with. But the Gingrich campaign might not have that much trouble off-loading those items.</s>STEVE FERBER: We're selling quite a number of items from Gingrich. There's still a lot of interest there.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: That's Steve Ferber. He and his wife, Lori, deal in presidential and political memorabilia, even memorabilia from hopefuls, like Gingrich, who drop out of the race.</s>STEVE FERBER: They become what we call a quantity candidate, that it's not so much the individual item as it is the volume of items that are available. And we often buy them in boxes, and sometimes crates.</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: Of course, people still have to want what's in those boxes and crates. Ferber says the law of supply and demand does apply to politics.</s>STEVE FERBER: When it comes to political memorabilia, there are two key factors: One is scarcity, and the other is demand. You have to have both for something to be of value.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now, one thing that could drive up demand is if Gingrich decides to run again. Either way, we're not talking about big bucks.</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: Just mostly memories of a campaign that ended earlier than the candidate wanted.</s>STEVE FERBER: I don't think there's much of a chance of paying off the millions with their leftover campaign buttons, but we have a big garage, so if they'd like to start shipping items to us, we'd be happy to take them.</s>DAVID GREENE, HOST: That's Steve Ferber, one of the founders of Lori Ferber Collectibles in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Newt Gingrich officially pulled out of the Republican presidential race Wednesday. So what happens to the leftover T-shirts and campaign buttons?