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

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

What polls are you using?

I'm slightly confused by the fact that the area of each bar has no particular meaning. I keep wanting it to be a histogram.

If I were doing this, I would make the height of the bar the number of college votes, and the width uniform, and either leave the polls out of it or use some kind of error bar to show the current status. I'm not saying you should do what I'd do, though.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Yes, I keep wanting the area to mean something. If EVs were proportional to population it would.