Even some conservative commentators conceded that Obama won the day.
"Obama did well, got the better of GOP today," the Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb tweeted. "Fortunately, we got the better of him the last six months or so. And health care is dead."
Daniel Foster at the National Review argued it made both sides look good.
"It would be hard to argue the exchange is anything but a plus-plus for Obama and the GOP," he wrote. "Both sides emerged from it looking as if, contra the public's greatest fears, they are serious about the deficit and health-care reform. ... [T]he Republicans went a long way toward showing that they are hardly a party of obstructionists with no solutions to offer Americans."
UPDATE: Some commentators are pointing to the fact that Fox News cut off the live feed of Obama's debate half-way through as proof that the president got the better of the GOP on Friday.
"Perhaps the most telling aspect of the speech reactions," writes David Weigel at the Washington Independent, is that "Fox News, alone among cable networks, cut away mid-broadcast and went to a newsless interview with Rep. Peter King (R-NY)."
NBC's Luke Russert offered more evidence that at least the GOP views it as a loss for their side.
"GOP aides telling me it was a mistake to allow cameras into Obama's QA with GOP members,"Russert tweeted Friday. "Allowed BO to refute GOP for 1.5 hours on TV."
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