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...

By many accounts, Republican candidate Ron Paul has become an online political phenomenon: despite polling in the low single digits nationally, as of today he has more Facebook supporters than McCain, more MySpace friends than Romney, more YouTube views than Hillary Clinton and more Meetups planned than any other candidate.

Though many observers have been fascinated by his apparent rise, it really shouldn't come as a surprise: his positions and his background make him a perfect Web candidate. But, they'll also ultimately doom his candidacy. Here's why he's an online natural:

As you know, there's a GOP Presidential debate tonight in South Carolina (Fox News Channel, 9 PM Eastern).

I'm not going to watch it until it makes its way in to easier-to-digest clips on YouTube and after I read all of my favorite conservative blogs for their reactions.

Besides, it's not like they're going to talk about any of the issues I care about, e.g., the Internet, net neutrality, etc.

Since I'm not going to watch, and I'm going to support whoever our nominee ends up being regardless of who "wins" the debate, (I can't vote FYI because I live in Washington, DC), I'll simply offer some free advice that I'd be giving to a candidate -- if I were working for him. So here goes:

You know better... Read my free advice after the jump

I just got back to Capitol Hill from a preview of John McCain's new website which has now launched at johnmccain.com.

I joined two other DC-based conservative bloggers (Rob Bluey and Matt Lewis), and CNN's Abbi Tatton, at McCain's campaign hq in Arlington, VA for a sneak-peak of the website.