The AP's Brian Bakst writes this highly interesting piece (via Taegan Goddard's Political Wire):

An unknown Minnesota Democrat earned a footnote in history Monday by casting one of the state's 10 Electoral College votes for John Edwards, the Democratic vice presidential running mate for John Kerry.

The Edwards vote gives Minnesota its first "faithless elector," the dubious name for Electoral College members who snub the candidate who won the state's popular vote in the general election. Kerry, who beat President Bush in Minnesota but lost overall, wound up with nine of the state's electoral votes.

No one claimed credit for the Edwards vote. Several electors said they suspected that someone unconsciously mixed up the two Johns on the ticket rather than purposefully made a political statement.

I suppose this means that there would have needed to be 19 faithless Bush electors to swing the contest rather than just 18.

By the way, someone with that much seniority in the Democratic party to be selected was ignorant enough to mix up Kerry and Edwards? Yeah. I buy that explanation.