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With a week before primary day, Rob Menendez Jr. and Ravi Bhalla were faced with a question that has perhaps become the main theme in their high-profile battle: why do they feel like they have the moral high ground over each other? Menendez Jr., the Democratic incumbent representative of the Eighth District, brought up an alleged quid pro quo arrangement involving the Hoboken mayor and his censure by the state Supreme Court during a one-hour debate Tuesday organized by Hudson Media Group. Bhalla, meanwhile, connected the first-term congressman to the political bosses that got him to Congress. …