WaPo does some fact checking on testimony.
A one week delay is fair. It would have looked really bad for the GOP if they had gone through with the vote without at least that, though I wouldn't expect any more. This whole thing has been a shitshow. Unless the FBI finds something noteworthy, it's likely Kavanaugh gets voted through at the end of the week. But there likely won't be any findings that prove his innocence or guilt (what could they really find?), so you're going to have a body of people who are sure of his guilt, and another body that is sure of his innocence and how it was some political smear job, which I guess would Brett Kavanaugh the new Clarence Thomas. I wonder if allegations of this nature are going to become more or less common?
Pretty much. The only way anything will change is if there's a perjury smoking gun, but it'd have to be pretty definite to get the Republicans to change their tune. In the meantime it's been the usual sound and fury (and signifying just as much). As for whether they'll become more or less common, I'm not sure, but I don't think so. If this really were a political hitjob, why did nothing similar happen to Neil Gorsuch? There was arguably more reason for Democrats to be angry about him, simply because he was who got the nomination that the Republicans basically stole from Obama.