Something about internal polls: I always figured they were bunk but Charlie Cook recently said he'd take many internal polls over media polls any day of the week. It depends on who's doing the poll, he said. Many media polls are awful and shoddy (I think he said 50% were "mediocre" and nearly as many simply bad), and internal polls, on the other hand, were by and large more serious.
Becker! By the way, he's a guy. One of those guy-Frans. So don't be alarmed when you see a dude.
And Ann Marie Buerkle can win in NY-25 against Dan Maffei, who won in a GOP area in the 2008 Obama wave. But that wave is gone now and replaced by something... beautiful. And something... terrible.