Tom Jensen of the Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling is characterizing PPP’s new poll results — which show Libertarian Senate candidate Mike Beitler pulling 10% of the vote — as “surprising.”

I don’t find this surprising at all. Voters are looking for alternatives to the two major parties — particularly fiscal conservatives.

Nor do I find it surprising that Beitler is pulling more Democrats (7%) than Republicans (4%).

Libertarian Mike Munger, the 2008 candidate for governor, says he drew more of his votes from Democrat Bev Perdue than from Republican Pat McCrory.