Final conclusions?

• Most liberals seemed happy with the testimony of Christine Ford
• Certainly conservatives seemed more than happy with the testimony of Judge Kavanaugh
• I would offer that the Democrats were more interested in calling for more delay (aka - FBI investigation)  than they were interested in asking real questions of Kavanaugh or getting to the truth. 
• Kavanaugh and the GOP appeared to have a strategy to not attack Ford under any circumstance, but rather save all of their attacks on the Democrats and the process. (smart).
• I think the fact that Kavanaugh went second certainly overshadowed what happened with the Ford testimony. I can see why it was important to Katz and gang to try to go second.
• Certainly the final questions from Senator Kennedy put an explanation point on what the GOP and Kavanaugh were trying to accomplish.

I would say if you believed her before the hearing, you probably still believe her. If you believed him before the hearing you still believe him. In fact, it's perfectly acceptable to believe them both to at least some degree. I might argue that to call one or the other a "liar" may even be somewhat inappropriate all things considered.

What you have to do in this sort of situation (where you might find two credible people providing opposite testimony) is call it a draw and move on to the tiebreaker. As much as liberals and anti-Trumpers might hate it, that tiebreaker is the evidence and the facts. 

Quite literally every bit of objective evidence, and pretty much all third hand accounts of these events support Judge Kavanaugh. Moreover, given he is the accused, and in our system of justice the burden always falls on the accuser, there was nothing provided by Christine Ford in the way of evidence that implicates that Kavanaugh did any of this. Every last bit of corroboration falls in favor of the Judge. 

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Personally, from what I saw, the independent prosecutor the GOP hired wasn't that good, but then again I never thought that the GOP had much to gain by going after Ford in a big way. This was always going to be about Kavanaugh, and in the end that is really how it turned out. 

This wasn't a debate or an election. The only one you can vote for is Kavanaugh. So the question becomes, after hearing all the evidence and hearing both sides tell their tale, is there enough there to vote AGAINST Judge Kavanaugh. 

I didn't see it. I think he seemed honest. As someone who is a logical computer troubleshooter in my real life, I cannot with any objective honestly say that I believe he attempted to rape anyone, stuck his penis in anyone's face, or was part of a gang rape ring.