Correctimundo. It's even ''worse'' than that for l'il Dickie, speaking as a 20-year resident of the 3rd District. Ol' Eyebrows didn't run for another term because he is now very, very beatable in the 3rd, probably wouldn't even be the favourite if the 'Pubbies would back a decent canidate (for instance, Kathy Enz, who got w/in 7% last time with NO, zero party support). The North Carolina residence, his real home, has caught up with him BIGtime, and the lower half of his carefully gerrymandered district has seen a significant demographic shift.
Gephardt's district is going to elect another Dem, and comfortably. His district was redrawn to take it out of the mix, to the extent it was, which it wasn't. That is NOT why Gephardt retired. He retired, because he gave up the minority leader position, and ex speakers/minority leaders don't hang around.