According to exit polls, Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama 55-45% among Pennsylvania’s Jewish voters. Now the Obamaphile spinners will rejoice, saying this proves that he doesn’t have a “Jewish problem”, and that Jews only dislike him to the same degree other voters do.

It is worth noting that, yes, Obama has bigger problems with women, seniors, rural voters, and white voters than with Jews. But many Democratic Jews–especially in Montgomery County, where Obama lost–fit the mold of otherwise Obama-receptive voters. They’re affluent, educated, and liberal. His loss there indicates that they are uniquely bothered by Obama, by his association with Reverend Wright or his Hamas endorsement or his stance on Iran. He may have larger concerns (working-class and rural voters) as he heads into Indiana and North Carolina. But Pennsylvania provided one more smidgen of evidence that, if Obama is the nominee, he may have difficulty retaining as many Jewish voters as other recent Democratic nominees.