Herman Cain Hangs On

At New York Times, "Amid Questions, Cain Stays Defiant":

COLUMBUS, Ohio — As leading Republicans began openly questioning how Herman Cain has handled the allegations against him, he remained defiant Wednesday with a message that he had repeated over and again: “Don’t give up!”

The line seemed doubly resonant. It was clearly a motivational message for the several hundred young adults at an afternoon rally for Mr. Cain at Ohio State University here. But it was also a statement about Mr. Cain himself as pressure mounted for a second day for him to withdraw from the presidential race amid an escalating scandal about his sexual conduct.

On Monday, an Atlanta woman came forward to say that she and Mr. Cain had had a 13-year extramarital affair that ended this year, just as he was getting ready to run for the Republican nomination. Already, Mr. Cain had spent most of November defending himself against revelations of sexual harassment allegations stemming from his time as president of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s.

But nothing in Mr. Cain’s actions on Wednesday suggested that he would halt his campaign as he engaged in a whirlwind day of campaigning around Ohio and in New Hampshire.

“They want you to believe that we can’t do this,” he told a few hundred supporters gathered in a hotel ballroom in Dayton on Wednesday morning. “They want you to believe that with enough character assassination on me, I will drop out!”

The audience shouted, “No!” and “Don’t go!

And at The Other McCain, "New Cain Campaign Video: ‘Put an Executive in the Executive Office’." And from Jeff Goldstein, "It's NOT Time For Herman Cain to Go."