Does my new chart make sense?

[ciphergoth]

Imagine for a moment that it's 2:30 AM London time on November 5th and like me, you've stayed up late to watch the US elections. Six states have been called so far: Vermont and Virginia for Obama, and Indiana, Georgia, South Carolina and Kentucky for McCain. You go to my election page and see this diagram:

Does it make sense to you? How could I improve it?

thanks!

Update: wow, a flood of very helpful comments, thanks so much, keep them coming!

Comments

[simont]

I think it's at least worth a try. Nice as it is to align the left/right political axis with the left/right coordinate axis, the combination of vertically printed state names and a picture slightly too wide for my usual browser window is a bit unpleasant.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

OK, makes sense.

Assuming an audience almost entirely rooting for Obama:

- Should the Democrats bars point left or right?
- Should DC be at the top and Idaho at the bottom, or vice versa?

[fizzyboot.livejournal.com]

Democrata are the left wing party. So they should be on the left.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

ITYM "marginally less right wing party" :-)

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Democrat bars pointing left, DC at the top.

(More thoughts to follow.)

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Yep, that matches what I think too.