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

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

I think, simply, that it's quite cool that you came up with this. And I love that you made an icon of it.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Actually I made an icon of it because I accidentally deleted my old election icon and needed a new one in a hurry :-)

I think it will be much improved by the suggestions I've got here!