I barely saw it, but at the very end of the show, it looked like someone gave her a big bear hug...I couldn't tell who, because the show went off right away. It used to run through all the credits, but not tonight.
You are right, she really is an amazing woman. I hope that she and Senator McCain can close the deal in a few weeks. I'd love to see the meeting between Lynn Cheney and Sarah, as well as Todd Palin and VP Cheney...comparing hunting notes...
That was Casey Wilson, a featured performer this year. I noticed that she jumped up and down excitedly and pointed at Sarah when Brolin mentioned her name, then ran up to her smiling and gave her a big hug. Maybe she's one of the people Lorne Michaels referred to obliquely when he said that not everyone on the show is a liberal. This is from the Personal Life section of her Wikipedia entry (maybe she takes after her dad):
"Wilson was born in Alexandria, Virginia, along with her brother Fletcher Todd, an engineer. She is a graduate of T. C. Williams High School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts and studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Her father, Paul O. Wilson, is a political consultant and runs campaigns for moderate Republicans.
Her late mother, Kathy Wilson, was chair of the National Women's Political Caucus, and attended her last Republican National Convention in 1980, while pregnant with Casey. Under her leadership, the NWPC endorsed Walter Mondale in the 1984 election, and Kathy eventually switched to the Democratic Party."