Time for Kids - Election Connection  - easy-to-understand guide to the issues, candidates, and other aspect of the election
Education Week: Election-Related Web Resources: this site was developed for American school kids
www.algore.com -the official website of Al Gore and Joe Lieberman
www.bush2000.com - the official website of George W Bush and Dick Cheney
BBC In-Depth: US Elections - very good source
Hvem ville du ha stemt på? - Norwegian website that lets you take a test to see which of the two major party candidates you agree with. 
US Department of State - Election 2000. Topical information as well as background on parties, etc.
Hillary for US Senate - Bill's wife launches her own political career!

Check out the latest news on the year 2000 elections at CNN's allpolitics.com.

Drop by the Official White House website. Take a tour of the building, check out some of the other links (e.g. the Clinton/Gore pages), and don't forget to sign the electronic guestbook before you leave!

Go to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue where the United States Congress is located. Their website is far less colorful than that of the White House, but it does give you the nitty-gritty about this important institution. An extremely useful source for historical documents about the US is the Library of Congress (for advanced students!).

The third branch of government, the United States Supreme Court, consists of nine judges (or justices, as they are called). Take a look at today's Supreme Court justices (never mind the fact that the site belongs to something called Airport net ...).

As for last year's news: if you are still interested in the scandal involving Clinton and that woman ... Ms Lewinsky, CNN's "Investigating the President" is probably one of the best overviews online. If you want to find out what impeachment involves, there are thorough answers, and less thorough ones. If you insist on reading up on the heavyweights, I assume the Law Professors' Network Guide to Impeachment and Censure Materials Online is a good choice. A fairly short definition can be found under the entry of "impeachment" in the Grolier Interactive Encyclopedia.

For an example of how each of the fifty states also has a legislative branch of government that makes laws for that particular state, take a quick peek at the website of the Minnesota State Legislature (most of the links on that site are too technical to be of much interest to us, though; if you are interested in a more journalistic approach to politics on state level in Minnesota, try "The Pioneer Planet at the Capitol"). 

The leader of the executive branch in each state is the governor. The governor of Minnesota, Jesse Ventura, became an overnight national celebrity when he was elected in November 1998. He had been known up to that point as Jesse "The Body" Ventura, a less well known participant than stars like Hulk Hogan in the weird world of American pro wrestling. Read up on Ventura who, by the way, has now set about to recast himself as Jesse "The Brain" Ventura, at the Ventura files. There is also an official website for the Governor of Minnesota.

The North Star project will  give you information about local government, i.e government below state level. They also give you a good general overview of  the respective roles of state legislatures and the United States Congress. If this seems difficult, maybe you cunitan take comfort in knowing that, according to this site, even Americans often confuse these two institutions.

If you want to check out political news - in the US or worldwide - a good source is the AllPolitics section at CNN Interactive. There is also a search engine on this site where you can limit your searches to CNN archives.