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

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I'd do a separate chart for how the polls did against reality; I have scattergram software for drawing that.

Forgot to answer your other question - no, this chart, in the (so far) invented scenario I describe, predicts an Obama win by 95 points. The colour of the states just indicates how they went in 2004; it's which side of the midline they are that indicates how they are predicted to go this time.

[xquiq.livejournal.com]

Ah right, yes. Bit of a braino on my part there...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Not at all, just a useful indicator of what I need to do to make the chart clearer!