When you think about YouTube, you probably think young and liberal. Well, if you did, you’d be, um, wrong.

As the Republican presidential candidates mull decisions to pull out of the YouTube/CNN debate, we here at techPresident took a quick look at the demographic breakdown of the YouTube audience and found some very interesting data.

According to comScore, YouTube actually attracts more Republicans than Democrats. Specifically, there are 3.3 million self-identified Republicans on the user-generated video site versus 3.1 million Democrats. (An addition 5 million consider themselves independent.)

Digging a bit deeper...

With all eyes on Fred Thompson as he gives a keynote speech tonight (11:30PM EST), I was reminded of a scheme I hatched a couple weeks ago to create a parallel campaign for Arthur Branch for President.  Branch, Thompson’s Law & Order alter ego, is probably the way most of America knows Thompson now.  With that in mind, I thought that if I could confuse the electorate with an Arthur Branch campaign, whenever they saw Thompson speak, they would think they were watching Branch.  Then when voters went to the polls looking to vote for Branch, they wouldn’t find him on the ballot, just this unfamiliar Fred Thompson.