US election: Barack Obama seeks women's vote as he appears on The View "Our first wedding anniversary, I totally forgot," Michelle dead-panned. The president jokingly responded: "Cold." Mr Obama and his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, are both fighting hard for the women's vote. In 2008, middle-class women were key to Mr Obama's presidential win, and Mr Obama has worked to get them to the polls again. His campaign this summer renewed its focus on social issues such as birth control, women's health and reproductive rights. Democrats have accused Republicans of declaring a "war on women," while Mr Romney's campaign has slammed Mr Obama's policies for weakening the economy and hurting women in the work force. During the taping, host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a vocal Republican supporter, asked if the Obama administration had failed the middle class. "Everything that we've done has been designed to deal with not only the immediate crisis, but make sure that the middle class, which had been struggling for a decade before that, is feeling more secure," Obama said. The problems that were created aren't going to be solved overnight. Hasselbeck also pressed Mr Obama about his previous comments that he cannot end Washington gridlock just from the inside, telling him: "You are Washington, you're about as inside as it gets." The idea is that you can't change Washington just from the inside, you've got to mobilise the American people. When the American people are engaged and involved, then change always happens," Mr Obama replied. We can't play just an inside game where special interests and lobbyists and big money and folks writin' big checks, they're the only ones who have influence. Mr Romney's wife Ann will also make a stab at winning over television viewers chatting with comedian Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" in her first late-night interview on Tuesday, according to the NBC network. Ann Romney will give her thoughts on family life and the coming election, the network said in a statement.