"He said it put a 'spring in his step' but he didn't say people changed their vote because of it. They are quite different."
Well, in truth, if one reads the whole article, he said more than just that. And, did it change the die hard Hillary or Trump vote. No. But, it most probably did affect the independent and undecided voters, and the turnout of those just moderately supportive of Hillary. If you don't think so then you didn't watch him and the other Trump surrogates beat the drum, frequently and loudly of: “With eleven days to go in this election cycle something amazing happened. The FBI director, James Comey, came out on a Friday and said they may be reopening the investigation into ‘crooked’ Hillary Clinton’s emails,” he said.
“What that did was remind people that there are two different rules in Washington, those of the elites, for the privileged - and those for everybody else.”
Now, if they didn't think that message would negatively impacted Hillary's changes of winning, I'm certain they would not have spent the effort. 
Plus, if you had been following 538 you would know that it did hurt her changes of winning, and from which she never fully recovered.
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Remember though, Comey came out 48 hours before the election and cleared her. Are you saying the masses got the first Comey message but didn't get the last one?
Did you see Bernie say it caused her the election? No. He specifically said she didn't lose bc of Comey.
Also, remember the Obamacare bills arrived in mail boxes first week of November and that almost certainly hurt her as well.
As for 538, I do not believe they are on record saying Comey caused her loss
Of course it affected votes. The Clinton's and the Democrats should be glad that's all Comey did. If he had done his job correctly there would have been an even bigger win for DJT. Another 9 or 10 states would have most likely swung for DJT.
And now all that's up for grabs in this thread is what? Noting that a fired campaign manager admitted the thing we all know? And it's significant because he did it overseas? How about the significance of what BHO's been saying overseas the last couple of days? Is it significant that DJT has not been talking about Comey? Why should he stir things up at this point? Maybe after he's in office? Jeese Jackson just publicly called on BHO to pardon HRC. For what? Doesn't one have to have committed a crime (or at least be accused) to be pardoned?
straining at gnats while swallowing camels. Go back and re-read the title of the article. The operative word is "helping" not causing
