Cain got brought down by flubbing softball questions, the affair allegations he was actually surviving... until the 13 year one where he was giving money behind his wife’s back came out.
Frankly Cain’s campaign was effectively over when he bombed a simple question on Libya... and then on Cuba.. etc etc etc. Allegations of affairs didn’t take Cain down.. Cain’s own ineptitude did.
“Cain got brought down by flubbing softball questions”
Wrong. After 2 weeks of sexual allegations splashed on the tv screen 24/7, Cain was back to single digits.
The Libya answer didn’t hurt him at all. He had answered questions like that many times before. He once said that he didn’t have a plan for Afghanistan. People don’t expect candidates to be foreign policy experts.