Hillary Clinton won this area only narrowly over Mr. Trump. But as in many swing districts, the energy about voting in November’s midterm elections has been higher among Democrats. Interviews reflected that; Democrats said that the way Republicans in the Senate had responded to Dr. Blasey’s allegations — refusing her calls for an F.B.I. investigation and trying for a quick vote on the nomination — had stoked the passion of local activist groups.

No one invoked Anita Hill, whose allegations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas in 1991 might seem a parallel to Dr. Blasey. Several people, though, raised the example of Merrick B. Garland, whose Supreme Court nomination by President Barack Obama was stymied by Senate Republicans who refused to hold hearings for him.

“The Republicans are very shortsighted in recognizing their own shenanigans of the past, ignoring a Supreme Court nominee for 293 days,” said Spring Moore, 41 and a Democrat, who was eating pizza with her 7-year-old daughter.

And many saw too many gaps and doubts piling up around Judge Kavanaugh: the White House’s withholding of 100,000 pages of records from his time as a lawyer in the Bush Administration; his credit card debts; and his celebration of heavy drinking in a speech and in emails that were turned over to the Senate.

Mr. Elliot, at the record store, said that while he had not liked Mr. Trump’s first pick, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, he understood that it was the president’s right to choose. “I didn’t think there was anything there that meant he shouldn’t be confirmed,” he said. “There’s so much to look at with Kavanaugh. Why are they trying to keep this information from the American people?”

Robert Pennington, 28 and a Democrat, agreed. He had watched Judge Kavanaugh’s hearings with increasing doubt. “There are people who I don’t agree with their policies but they don’t give me bad vibes,” he said. “He gives me bad vibes. He’s dodged so many questions.”