{"id":61369,"date":"2025-11-02T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/santa-clara-countys-measure-a-ahead-in-poll\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T09:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:30:16","slug":"santa-clara-countys-measure-a-ahead-in-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/santa-clara-countys-measure-a-ahead-in-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara County\u2019s Measure A ahead in poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early signs point to slim voter enthusiasm for a Santa Clara County sales tax measure that could mean the difference between public hospital cuts and closures \u2014 and the opposition campaign is heating up. A poll commissioned by the county\u2019s public safety unions shows potential voters narrowly favoring Measure A, the five-eighth cent sales tax increase on the Nov. 4 special election ballot. Pollsters with J. Wallin Opinion Research say 58% of 400 respondents speaking English and Spanish indicated they would vote yes, with just one-third indicating they were a definite yes. The poll reports a roughly 5% margin of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/santa-clara-countys-measure-a-ahead-in-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early signs point to slim voter enthusiasm for a Santa Clara County sales tax measure that could mean the difference between public hospital cuts and closures \u2014 and the opposition campaign is heating up. A poll commissioned by the county\u2019s public safety unions shows potential voters narrowly favoring Measure A, the five-eighth cent sales tax &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}