The NE story by itself won’t change anything. There needs to be more evidence independent of the NE for this to have any impact. Drudge implied there would be more, but unless there is more that forces the MSM to cover it, they will ignore it like they have for the most part with the Wikileaks releases and the NE story will be dismissed as tabloid trash.
I’ll argue that the MSM is barely relevant these days. New media has a bigger impact. No one under 45 watched teevee, much less teevee news.
The Enquirer cover will be in every checkstand for the next week. it’s does not need to convince but a tiny minority of grocery shoppers to have a big effect. If it only convinces 1/5 of currentky undecided women, that’s a 1-2 point swing in favour of Trump.
It also has the possibility of suppressing reluctant Clinton voters. If it suppresses a tiny minority of currently reluctants - also yuuge