News 12 Then: The candidate who tried to hypnotize voters back in 1978

ATLANTA, Georgia (WDEF) – We had to go way back to find a political story just as outlandish as what we’ve seen in this presidential election.

But we found it on the oldest video tape in our archives.

It tells the story of a candidate for Governor of Georgia who was having trouble getting his campaign spot on TV.

It seems that Georgia stations didn’t like the idea that he was trying to literally hypnotize voters.

Take a look at how this hokey hypnotist made headlines that year.

**PS… it didn’t work. Nick Belluso finished 5th in the Democratic primary, losing to the staid incumbent Governor George Busby, and even trailing the flamboyant white supremecist, J.B. Stoner.