Earlier this week, people living and working around the Maine State House looked up to see a small plane trailing a banner reading simply "Mess with Texas."

The same cryptic message flew over the capitols of Maryland, New York, California and a few other states — all part of a campaign to convince Democrats in blue states to redraw their congressional maps in response to a Republican redistricting attempts in Texas.

But don't expect to see a similar push in Maine, where the state constitution makes such gerrymandering more difficult if not impossible given the current state's current political balance.

"Maine actually has one of the best, most equitable, sort of nation-leading mechanisms that we use to do our redistricting," said Senate President Mattie Daughtry, D-Brunswick. "So we can

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