The overwhelming majority of the voting data accumulated thus far in the Democratic primaries contradicts the media narrative suggesting Bernie Sanders doesn’t perform well in states with diverse populations.

While the fact that Sanders yesterday swept “Western Saturday” (with votes in Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington) is a part of the analysis — as is the fact that, in just a few hours of voting, Sanders managed to eliminate 22.5% of Hillary Clinton’s 296-delegate lead — it isn’t the greater part. I’m not even focusing here on the fact that, after weeks of being told how staggeringly far ahead Clinton is in the pledged delegate race, her monumental margin ends up, as of today, being no more than 54.9% to 45.1%.

A single-digit lead.

With 1,750 pledged delegates — nearly 45% of all pledged delegates — yet to be awarded, across 22 future nominating contests.

So: those are some pretty eye-popping numbers.

Still, far more important to undercutting the specious media narrative about Bernie Sanders and diverse electorates is a somewhat broader observation: that thus far, six of the ten most diverse states in America have held Democratic nominating contests, and both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have won three of these contests.