I agree, the bottom line is that nobody knows nothin', and its unbelievable regarding the amount of air time this has gotten (given no definitive charges, and only anonymous accusers).
And yet Fast and Furious, Birthgate, Solyndra-gate, and the dozens of other 'gates' involved with this Administration garner minimal, and only perfunctory, interest by the 'Press'...
Some more details are now being put out there and it doesn't sound good.
I hate to say this, because I like Herman Cain -- always have; but, he's done. You are right about (at least up to this point) the fact that there are very few details and facts about what actually went on. But, in today's world, that doesn't matter. He is getting the full-Palin treatment. People on this website are people who pay attention to the details of things, who read several sources. Who interact with other people to get their opinions and then think a matter through. We are the exception in this country.
Most people are not going to keep track of all the ins and outs of what has been going on for the past week. All they know, is that they keep hearing things like Cain and "sexual harassment", and Cain and "inappropriate gestures" that made some woman uncomfortable. Now it will be Cain and some woman he took to his apartment and he is a married man.
It is done. If everything is investigated and it turns out that none of it is true; doesn't matter. The stuff is out there in the ether, and people just take certain words and they stick in your brain and that is it.
So, if he were to get the nomination, the Obama campaign is never going to let go of this. He is never going to be able to get his message out, because the media will be doing the bidding of the WH and the WH re-election campaign is not going to let anyone forget about these allegations.
It is awful, it was awful when it happened to Palin. I don't know what can be done about the obvious one-sided bias of the media or the fact that they intend to always pro-actively involve themselves in pushing the leftist agenda. But, at the moment, it is the world we live in and the media is in the process of taking down someone that they see (or have been informed by the WH) is a threat to the re-election of Zero.