“And yet Cain’s campaign chair is doing interviews where he says they handled this wrong”
It really doesn’t matter. This will be old news in two weeks.
Eventually the media will bring it up and they will be ignored by the Cain campaign and by Cain. “We’ve answered all of the questions regarding the “baseless and false” accusations and we are now continuing the campaign.”
The media sees Romney as their next target and will move on after being ignored. Cain will survive.
Conservatives will rally around him and give more money.
Newt Gingrich actually got more money on Monday and Tuesday as well. It may be that we will find that every campaign had an increase in donations as conservatives saw this as a generic attack on their candidates.