Utah’s time as a confusing and puzzling potential swing state, as my colleague Hal Boyd called it, is far from over.

On Tuesday, the Washington Post released the results of a survey that looked at all 50 states in advance of the 2016 presidential election. The survey, the largest ever done by the Washington Post, was conducted with the help of SurveyMonkey, which interviewed more than 74,000 participants.

Overall, the survey found that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton leads the election over Trump by 4 percentage points. This comes despite a CNN poll revealing that GOP nominee Donald Trump has a national lead over Clinton.

The survey’s state-by-state breakdowns show something interesting about how Utah feels about the current candidates. In a head-to-head matchup, Trump edges out Clinton 46 to 35 percent, with 19 percent having “no opinion” on the matter.

But when you add Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein, Utah becomes a unique state.

In a four-way race, Trump still edges out Clinton, 34 to 27 percent. Johnson, though, is right behind with 23 percent of the vote — the highest of any state other than his home state of New Mexico. In fact, the next closest states are South Dakota, Idaho and Alaska, which all have 19 percent of their vote going to Johnson.

The study didn't have a margin of error, according to the Post, because "this statistic is only applicable to randomly sampled surveys."

It’s interesting to note that Evan McMullin, a BYU graduate and Mormon who’s running for president as an independent candidate, didn’t make the cut in this poll, meaning he could be taking some of the vote away from the other candidates.

And, to make matters even more interesting for Utah, the Beehive State holds the highest amount of “no opinion” votes in the country with 11 percent. Vermont and Hawaii are the closest states with a similar feeling at 9 percent.

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As I wrote about before for Deseret News National, Utah’s been caught in the national media spotlight because of its unique perspective on the current election. Johnson, then Clinton and Trump each wrote op-eds for the Deseret News. And then there's McMullin’s Mormon background.

But as Emma Green of The Atlantic wrote this week, much of it has to do with Utah’s conservative and patriotic values, which fit right in with what presidential candidates want from their voters.

“In an election that has defied conventional wisdom, Utah has become a symbol of conventional American identity: religiously conservative, family-oriented, and equally committed to traditional American values and freedom for minority groups. While winning the state won’t help either major-party nominee — let alone McMullin — win the White House, the candidates are after moral rather than electoral victory out west. Utah’s Mormon voters are a near-perfect symbol of conservative American patriotism. And that’s an association both major-party candidates are hungry to win.”

Herb Scribner is a writer for Deseret Digital Media.