On WFLD's Good Day Chicago this morning, Rep. Danny Davis discussed his "exploration" of a run for Cook County board president in 2010.  At the end of the segment, Davis said that, if he sits down with incumbent President Todd Stroger in the near future, he will try to dissuade him from running and tell him point blank, "I don't think you'd get elected." Watch it:

Larry Suffredin also appeared on Fox Chicago Sunday yesterday and hinted strongly at his own interest in the race. "I really believe that it is necessary for somebody who has been part of this board -- and tried to change this board from the inside -- to run," he said. "Otherwise, all the work that Mike Quigley did in 11 years there, and that Forest [Claypool] and I have done in seven, will be lost."  Watch it:

Laura Washington published an interesting Sun-Times column today on the emerging field of candidates in this race.  She reveals that Toni Preckwinkle has so far raised $400,000 for her bid and asks the South Side alderman about Michael Sneed's rumor that Mayor Daley might be an eventual supporter:

"We're going to run a tough campaign," she [Preckwinkle] assured. She has raised $400,000 since January, she added, has lined up a first-rate staff and is crisscrossing the county from Wilmette to Oak Park to the south suburbs. She has met with Daley "three or four times" and has asked for his support.

I inquired: "What's your reaction to the Chicago Sun-Times' Michael Sneed's 'bet' that Daley will endorse her? If only to get a thorn-in-his-side independent out of the City Council?"

Long pause. No comment. I could almost hear her smile over the phone.

Read the whole thing.