Knowing John Edward's history, he will soon apologize for his vote - just like he apologized for so many of his votes in the Senate.

It is not a verbal slip, Mr. Crowley. I clearly heard Edwards say "I voted for one" on that interview. Go back and listen to it again.

I disagree.  "I just voted for 'em [them]."  Is exactly the gender-neutral construction anyone would use these days.

It's ungrammatical, confusing the third person pleural with the third person singular, but it's how people talk nowadays when they don't want to say whether the hypothetical individual of which they are speaking is male or female.  The old school, proper but un-PC way to phrase it would be "I just voted for him," regardless whether or not the hypothetical referent may be female.  The grammatically proper, PC way to say it would be, "I just voted for her or him."  But that's awkward and too self-consciously politically correct, so though folks use such a construction in their writing they almost never use it in conversation.  The default is "them" which Edwards naturally shortens to 'em.

That said, I'd be surprised if he did not, in fact, vote for Obama.

Here's the video:

www.youtube.com/watch

I look forward to the day Edwards says: "I voted for (fake sneeze), excuse me, and I am glad I voted for (fake hack cough)."

aeromonas has it exactly right.

That seems to happen a lot, incidentally, from what I've seen in his or her posts over the past months.

Were there other people on the primary ballot?  When I voted in my primary I checked off boxes for local alderman etc.  Hence, he could be speaking in plural because he's referring to more than one person.  Dunno, haven't seen the video (despite vc's head-fake...)

I am with you on this one aeromonas. It does make one wonder, though; he probably shouldn't talk so fast all the time.