Herman Cain denies media report he was accused of sexual harassment

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/herman-cain-denies-media-report-he-was-accused-of-sexual-harassment/2011/10/30/gIQAIrSOXM_story.html

Asked if Cain’s campaign was denying the report, Gordon said, “Yes.”
“These are baseless allegations,” Gordon said in a second interview later Sunday evening. “To my knowledge, this is not an accurate story.”
But Politico said that Gordon told their publication that Cain himself had indicated to campaign officials that he was “vaguely familiar” with the charges and that the restaurant association’s general counsel had resolved the matter.

Cain takes questions at the National Press Club today. It will be interesting to see whether he denies the incident ever happened, which would be reckless but not out of character, or acknowledges the incident but qualifies it to show it was not quite what it sounds like. There is risk in the strategy as well, depending on what the truth is.

My gut feeling in reading about this is that the truth is going to be very harmful to Herman Cain's presidential ambitions.