So?

If you're living in Maryland, this is a headline you're seeing in almost all of the local media sources:

Same-sex marriage opponents have twice the needed signatures. 

This one is from the Baltimore Sun, but the TV and radio folks all have the same story. 

And that's the problem.  It's not much of a story and certainly doesn't paint any picture of where things are going.  To put the statute granting same sex marriage rights in Maryland up for referendum only 55,736 signatures were necessary.  Over 122,000 were submitted.  This is presented as some sort of great victory for opponents of same sex marriage.  Not so much.

Baltimore County alone has a population over 1 million.  Baltimore City is over 600,000.  Montgomery and Prince George's Counties are larger than Baltimore County.  These signatures are drop in the bucket in the population of Maryland. 

And polling in Maryland is trending for more than 57% in favor of the statute.  We'll see when it comes to the actual voting, but it's far from over.