Yes - but the redistricting hasn't taken place yet. It is ordinarily done every 10 years based on Census data. We should know if it looks any better in a year or so after the new panel uses 2010 Census info to draw new lines.
Yup. With the passage of Proposition 20, voters corrected an oversight and gave the commission the power to also draw congressional as well as state lines. The Democratic Party leaders are shut out of a process they usually had all to themselves.