Post-election Wall Street surge leads Asia higher, dollar off lows

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stocks rose on Thursday as investors, relieved to have moved past the U.S. midterm elections without any major political surprises, drove a Wall Street rally, while the dollar clawed back some of its earlier losses.MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gained 0.5 percent.Australian stocks rose 0.5 percent, South Korea's KOSPI added 1.8 percent and Japan's Nikkei gained 2.1 percent.Wall Street's main indexes rose more than 2 percent on Wednesday,..